Improvement in registering-apparatus for spinning-mules



dimitri @3mm HENRYI. GREGORY, OF PLATTSBURG, NEV YORK.

Letters Patent No. 93,709, elated August 17, 1'869.

IMPRO'VEIVIEINT` IN REGISTERINGAPPARATUS FOR SPINNING-MURES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY I). GREGORY, of Plattsbnrg, in the county of Clinton, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Registering-Apparatus i'or Spinning-Jacks; and Ido hereby declare that the ihllowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification. f

This invention relates to improvements in registering-apparatus for spinning-jacks, and other spinning-- machinery, the object of which is to so arrange them that dishonest operatives may be prevented from working them to make them register more than they would do by the legitimate operation of themachines to which they are attached.

In the accompanying drawings- Iligure l represent-s a front elevation of the operating-mechanism as arranged according to my improvement.

Figure 2 represents a side elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a sliding bar, provided with a springpawl, B, for operating the ratchet-wheel, for moving lthe pointer over the dial, which, being of common construction, are net represented in the drawing.

Ihe said bar is suitably arranged at its lower end with reference Ito the carriage, or an inclined plane, C, thereon, or any other suitable mechanism to be raised by the same, at t-he moment that the said carriage arrives at the end of its inner movement, to cause, b v its action on the ratchet, a movement to register the corresponding movement of the carriage, or the work done during one full movement of the carriage.

To prevent the said sliding bar from immediately falling back, or as soon as the arm G is withdrawn' from it, by the. commencement ofthe return movement oi' the carriage, which would admit of its being moved several times, by hand, during the next spinning, and winding-on movement, a sliding catch-bai', c, is arranged in suit-able grooves or ways in the cas' ingr enclosing the apparatus, preferably at right angies to the bar A, and provided with a spring, which causes it to enter the notch I), arranged in the bar A, at the right point to hold the bar in the elevated position until, or very nearly until the cessation of the movement of the rollers, when the said sliding catch-bar is withdrawn, and the bar A allowed to fall.

lhe withdrawal of the bar c is effected in the followingr manner:

The gear-wheel E is jonrnalled in the end of the short arm of a lever, I1", pivoted at F, and connected at its long arm to the slide-bar A, in such a manner that when the bar rises, it will cause the said wheel E to gear with a wheel, G, on ashait connected, by the worin-gears H H', with the rollers of the spinning-machine, whereby 'it will be set into slow rotary motion 'by the said rollers, when they are geared with the moving power at the commencement of the ontward movement of the carriage.

The said wheel E is provided with a pin, I, which, at the proper moment, stiikes a projection, K, on the sliding catch-bar C, and withdraws it from the notch in the bar A, allowing it to fall, and the falling movement of the said bar raises thewheel E out of gear with the wheel G, which is returned to the right point, by a weight, L, to gear with the wheel G at the next movement, so that the spinning-meehanism may run the desired length of time before the said bar A falls.

The advantage of gealing the releasing-apparatus with the rollers is, that the latter cannot be movcdby the operator without seriously interfering with the proper working of the machine, and thereby leading to his detection.

VAThe said apparatus may, however, with like results, bc geared to the drum-shaft, but in this ease it would be necessary 'to-substitute bevel-wheels for the worm-gears, the motion of the said drum being very slow.

case, made of metal, or other material, together vwith the dial andthe mechanism actuated by the pawl B for moving the pointer, of which case, M represents the back, and N, the two side and bottom end walls, and the front I propose to cover with a glass covering to admit of a ready inspection ofthe apparatus, and as a convenient arrangement, I propose to attach it upon the front of the head of the spinning-frame facing the operator.

The notch D in the bar A is made materially greater in lengththan the width ofthe bar c, so that the said bar A must be raised'considerably higher than is required for thc bar c to fall into the said notch, to,

cause the register to move; otherwise the projcting lower end of the bar would ailbrd a means oi'` I propose toarrange the said .mechanism in a closed hmving-rollers or drum-shaft, substantially as deweighted wheel E and lever F', substantially as and scribed, for the purpose specified. for the pulpese specified.

2. The combination of' the bnr A, sliding catch-bar The above specification of my invention silfjfned by c, pvoted lever F', weight L, and pin I, with the me, this 24th day of November, 1868.

wheel E, for geariug'and ungezung with the rollers, HENRY l. GREGORY. substantially as herein shown and described. Witnesses: l

3. The combination, with the biu- A, sliding eateh- FRANK BLOCKLEY,

bur c, the wheel G, and the gem-ing H H', of' the E. GREENE COLLINS. 

